[Xapian-discuss] multiple value with the same number?

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:19:38PM -0700, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> Mind if I ask why you want multiple values in one slot?  If you can't
> sort/collapse on them, then I don't see them being very useful vs.
> encoding the sequence of values into the document's data blob.

The document data isn't so efficient to look at for huge numbers of
documents during the match though, and there are other ways to use values
during the match besides sorting and collapsing, especially in Xapian 1.2.
There's already a ticket for this, and the motivation there was for faceted
search:

http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/198

Cheers,
    Olly